Tract

Definition: Tract

Tract

Noun

1. An extended area of land.

2. A system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose.

3. A brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet.

4. A bundle of nerve fibers following a path through the brain.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tract" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Tract \Tract\, noun. [Abbrev.fr. tractate.]. (Websters 1913)

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Census

Finance

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

TRACT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Tract

Book

Noun: booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule; tract, tractate; livret; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication; chap book.

Course

Noun: corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time; duration.

Dissertation

Noun: dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis, theme; monograph, tract, tractate, tractation; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect; excursus.

Government

County, parish; city, domain, tract, arrondissement, mofussil, commune; wappentake, hundred, riding, lathe, garth, soke, tithing; ward, precinct, bailiwick.

News

Media, news media, the press, the information industry; newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication; radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission).

Crosswords: Tract

French (flier, handbill, handout, leaflet, placard, tract, tractate).

Terror Tract (2000)

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References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Urinary Tract Infection (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Herbs for the Urinary Tract: Herbal Relief for Kidney Stones, Bladder Infections and Other Problems of the Urinary Tract (Keats Good Herb Guide serie (reference)

• Upper Urinary Tract & Adrenal Gland (Guide to Diagnostic Imaging Vol 4) (reference)

• Urinary tract and adrenal glands (reference)

• Alimentary Tract (Systematic Pathology, Vol 3) (reference)

• Shackelford's Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Surgery Of The Liver & Biliary Tract Cd-rom (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cherry Falls/Terror Tract (reference)

• Terror Tract (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Line drawing showing stomach, backbone, liver and urinary tract of a woman. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Shown is an ad of General Mills' cereal Fiber One. The ad states that eating a well balanced high fiber, low fat diet may reduce the risk of certain types of lower digestive tract cancers, and also recommends a diet with 25-30 grams of dietary fiber a day. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Alimentary tract of infant showing intestinal necrosis, pneumatosis intestinalis, and perforation site (arrow). Autopsy. Credit: CDC.

Salmonella is usually a bacterial infection confined to the gastrointestinal tract, but can spread systemically causing septicemia and infection or lesions anywhere in the body. Credit: CDC.

Enterococcus (streptococcus) faecalis is a normal inhabitant of intestinal tract, and female genital tract, and is occasionally associated with urinary tract infection, bacteremia and bacterial endocarditis. Credit: CDC.

N. gonorrhoeae, a gram-negative diplococcus, is the causative agent for Gonorrhea. These bacteria can infect the genital tract, the mouth, and the rectum. Credit: CDC.

Actinomyces spp. are Gram-positive fungus-like bacteria. Normally present in the mouth or gastrointestinal tract of man, becoming pathogenic when normal protective barriers are broken down such as when there is an injury or inflammation. Credit: CDC.

Streptococcus pneumoniae the bacteria responsible for pneumococcal meningitis is very common and normally lives in the back of the nose and throat, or the upper respiratory tract. Credit: CDC.

BLM Tract Book Room in Eastern States. Credit: Cathy Rodine.

Last cattle drive of the millennium 1999, from the Rio Bonito Tract, Roswell FO, NM. Credit: H. Parman.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But things not always changing equally, and private interest often keeping up customs and privileges, when the reasons of them are ceased, it often comes to pass, that in governments, where part of the legislative consists of representatives chosen by the people, that in tract of time this representation becomes very unequal and disproportionate to the reasons it was at first established upon. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Consciousness of place came ebbing back to him slowly over a vast tract of time unlit, unfelt, unlived.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

An x-ray of the urinary tract. (references)

IVP is an x-ray of the urinary tract. (references)

Everyone has gas in the digestive tract. (references)

Business

Moreover, digestive tract, stomach, cervix and liver cancer is slightly higher in Argentina than in most developed countries. (references)

Civil Liberties

Singapore

The Government also has banned all written materials published by the Jehovah's Witnesses' publishing affiliates, the International Bible Students Association and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. (references)

Economic History

Uae

Th Dolphin consortium will develop Qatar's North Field tract, drilling and setting up production facilities for an approximate cost of US $ 2 billion. (references)

Human Rights

Burma

In another report by the SHRF, on May 19, army troops entered Laai Zan village in Saai Zan tract and arrested the village tract secretary, Zaai Zae-Ya, and another villager. (references)

Travel

Mexico

The relatively high altitude of Mexico City, a long winter dry season, and air pollution can cause irritation of the respiratory tract, nose and eyes - the latter especially for contact lens wearers. (references)

Worker Rights

Burma

According to the SHRF, since August hundreds of persons from 16 to 17 villages in Wan Zing tract have been working daily to fix a major road, approximately 40 miles long. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "tract": alimentary tract ♦ alimentary tract smear ♦ Biliary Tract ♦ Biliary Tract Neoplasms ♦ Biliary Tract Surgical Procedures ♦ census tract ♦ corticospinal tract ♦ digestive tract ♦ Digestive Tract Contents ♦ gastrointestinal tract ♦ gi tract ♦ iliotibial tract ♦ inflammation of the urinary tract ♦ lower respiratory tract ♦ lower respiratory tract smear ♦ nerve tract ♦ nutritive tract ♦ olfactory tract ♦ optic tract ♦ pyramidal tract ♦ respiratory tract ♦ Respiratory Tract Fistula ♦ respiratory tract infection ♦ scapular tract ♦ the respiratory tract ♦ upper respiratory tract ♦ Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (URI) ♦ Upper Tract ♦ urinary tract ♦ urinary tract infection ♦ Urinary Tract Infection [UTI] ♦ Urinary Tract Infection in Women ♦ Urinary Tract Infections ♦ Urinary Tract Physiology ♦ Uveal tract. Additional references.

Ending with "tract": a-tract, fibre-tract, throat-tract, upper-respiratory-tract, urinary-tract.

Albanian

trakt (fly sheet, leaflet), shtresë (bed, coat, coating, course, covering, estate, flake, floor, horizon, layer, nappe, reach, region, seam, sheet, strata, stratum, streak, wash), pamflet (lampoon, pamphlet), aparat i tretjes. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قطعة أرض (area, land, lot, parcel, piece, piece of land, plot, shred, spit), ‏ورقة دعاية دينية أو سياسية, ‏حقل (byway, deposit, domain, farm, field, orchard, realm, region), ‏تخطيط الأرض (project). (various references)

Bulgarian 

система от органи, трактат (disquisition, dissertation, tractate, treatise), тракт, широко пространство, шир (expanse, vast), открито пространство, непрекъснат период от време, продължителен период от време, период от време (space). (various references)

Chinese 

短文. (various references)

Czech

traktát (tractate), trakt (wing), spis (file, publication, writing), rozloha (area, expanse, extent, size, spread, stretch, wide), pojednání (dissertation, paper, transactions, treatise), plocha (area, flat, plane, space, surface). (various references)

Danish

tractus (tractus). (various references)

Dutch

tractus, vlugschrift (leaflet, pamphlet, paperback), strooibiljet (flier). (various references)

Farsi 

مقاله (Article, Disquisition, Dissertation, Essay, Paper, Theme, Treatise), مرور (Glance, Lapse, Perusal, Revisal, Revision), مدت (Duration, Interval, Length, Life, Outage, Patch, Period, Stretch, Term, Time, Usance), نشان (Aim, Attribute, Badge, Banner, Brand, Clue, Emblem, Ensign, Hallmark, Impress, Mark, Medal, Memento, Plaque, Presage, Score, Seal, Show, Sign, Signal, Stamp, Standard, Symbol, Symptom, Tally, Target, Token, Trace, Track), نشریه (Issue, Leaflet, Review, Serial), کشش (Draw, Extension, Haul, Haulage, Inducement, Jerk, Magnetism, Pull, Reach, Tension, Traction, Tug, Twitch), قطعه (Bloc, Block, Dab, Fragment, Goblet, Internode, Lot, Mainland, Nugget, Pane, Panel, Passage, Piece, Plank, Plat, Plot, Section, Segment, Slab, Smidgen, Snip), وسعت (Expanse, Extent, Gamut, Latitude, Limit, Purview, Space, Tether, Width), حد (Confine, Deal, Extent, Limit, Margin, Mark, Measure, Period, Precinct, Provenance, Quantity), اندازه (Bulk, Deal, Dimension, Extent, Gauge, Indicator, Limit, Measure, Quantity, Scale, Size, Span), اثر (Affect, Clue, Consequence, Effect, Efficacy, Growth, Impress, Impression, Opus, Rake, Relic, Result, Rut, Sign, Symptom, Trace, Track, Umbrage, Vestige), رساله (Act, Booklet, Brochure, Disquisition, Dissertation, Enchiridion, Epistle, Handbook, Leaflet, Textbook, Treatise), رشته (Branch, Catena, Filament, Ligature, Rank, Reeve, Sequence, Strand, String, Suite, System, Thread, Tissue, Train), ردبپا, داستان یانمایشنامه ویاحوادث مسلسل . (various references)

Finnish

traktaatti (treaty), tienoo (neighbourhood, region), seutu (area, district, locality, neighbourhood, region, vicinity). (various references)

French

tract (tractate). (various references)

German

Tractus (tractus), gebiet (area, branch, department, district, domain, dominion, field, ground, pocket, reach, region, territory, zone). (various references)

Greek 

έκταση (area, distention, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, lengthiness, purview, range, reach, scope, spread, stretch), πραγματεία (disquisition, dissertation, essay, treatise), προπαγανδιστικό φυλλάδιο, χώρα (clime, country, land, realm, region, territory), φυλλάδιο (booklet, brochure, fascicle, folder, leaflet, pamphlet, tractate), ηθικοθρησκευτικό φυλλάδιο, τρακτ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מסכת (chapter, context, texture, tissue, warp, weaving, web, woof), שטח (area, field, ground, plane, precinct, realm, spread, surface, zone), חוברת (booklet, brochure, issue, notebook, pamphlet), אזור (area, belt, district, girded, girdle, region, zone). (various references)

Hungarian

idõtartam (endurance of flight, period, period of time, tractate). (various references)

Indonesian

rel (rail). (various references)

Italian

tratto (circuit, course, feature, itinerary, journey, length, line, lineament, part, reach, stretch, stroke, trait, trip, trunk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

緑地 (green tract of land), 気�" (air duct, respiratory tract), 尿路 (urinary tract). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きどう (air duct, art of shogi, deceptive methods, maneuver, orbit, questionable means, railroad track, respiratory tract, starting, startup), にょうろ (urinary tract), りょくち (green tract of land). (various references)

Korean 

지역 (Area, Areas, District, locality, regional). (various references)

Manx

traghtys beg. (various references)

Pig Latin

acttray

Portuguese

trato (address, handling, intercourse, processing, trading, treatment, usage), período (cycle, date, epoch, period, phase, run, season, spell, term, time), panfleto (brochure, handout), folheto (bill, booklet, capsule, cod, flysheet, handout, leaflet, pamphlet, prospectus), extensão de terreno, espaço de tempo (lapse, period, time, while), brochura (leaflet, paperback). (various references)

Romanian

teren (course, domain, earth, field, ground, land, site, soil, terrain), suprafaţã (area, face, field, grass, rind, space, surface), sistem organic, pamflet (lampoon, libel, pamphlet, pasquinade, squib), broşurã (book, booklet, pamphlet), întindere de pãmânt. (various references)

Russian 

тракт (canal, fascicle, path). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sistem (chain, model, system), rasprava (argument, disagreement, discussion, disputation, dispute, polemic, question, thesis, treatise, wrangle), prostor (expanse, locale, room, scope, space), predeo (landscape, region), pamflet (pamphlet). (various references)

Spanish

tramo (flight, flight of stairs, length, lot, plot, stretch), tracto (interval), octavilla (handout, pamphlet). (various references)

Swedish

traktat (treaty). (various references)

Turkish

sistem (framework, graticule, grid, gridiron, regime, regulation, system, the system), saha (breadth, field, ground, pitch, range), broşür (booklet, brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet, tractate), bölge (area, belt, circumscription, climate, corner, department, district, division, latitude, parts, phase, precinct, quarter, region, section, sector, sky, territory, ward, zone), alan (acceptor, ambit, area, arena, buyer, compass, consignee, court, courtyard, domain, extent, field, maidan, pitch, plaza, public square, purchaser, range, reach, realm, recipient, region, scope, space, sphere, square, susceptive, theater, theatre, yard). (various references)

Ukrainian

трактат (discourse, dissertation, tractate, treatise), брошура (brochure, chap-book, pamphlet), підручник (class-book, manual, text, textbook). (various references)

Vietnamese 

miền (clime, country, quarter, zone). (various references)

Welsh

traethawd (essay, treatise). (various references)

plaga, plagae, plagam, plagarum, plagas, plagatus, plagis, tractus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tract": tractabilities, tractability, tractable, tractableness, tractablenesses, tractably, tractate, tractates, tractile, traction, tractional, tractions, tractive, tractor, tractors, tracts. (additional references)

Words ending with "tract": abstract, attract, contract, detract, distract, extract, fluidextract, nonabstract, noncontract, overabstract, protract, retract, semiabstract, subcontract, subtract. (additional references)

Words containing "tract": abstractable, abstracted, abstractedly, abstractedness, abstractednesses, abstracter, abstracters, abstractest, abstracting, abstraction, abstractional, abstractionism, abstractionisms, abstractionist, abstractionists, abstractions, abstractive, abstractly, abstractness, abstractnesses, abstractor, abstractors, abstracts, attractance, attractances, attractancies, attractancy, attractant, attractants, attracted, attracting, attraction, attractions, attractive, attractively, attractiveness, attractivenesses, attractor, attractors, attracts, contracted, contractibilities, contractibility, contractible, contractile, contractilities, contractility, contracting, contraction, contractional, contractionary. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tract" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cract, fracht, Gracht, Rtca, stract, Teachta, Tkacz, Torcato, trac, trach, tracit, traft, Traicte, trak, Trakl, trapt, trast, trat, tratt, trec, treft, triac, triarch, Tritc. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cart, tact, tart.

-2 letters: act, arc, art, att, car, cat, rat, tar, tat.

-3 letters: ar, at, ta.

+1 letter: cottar, tracts.

+2 letters: astrict, attract, cattery, cattier, chatter, citator, citrate, clatter, cottars, curtate, detract, extract, ratchet, retract, ricotta, scatter, tantric, teacart, tipcart, tractor, traject.

+3 letters: abstract, abstrict, actuator, artefact, artifact, artistic, astricts, atrocity, attacher, attacker, attracts, autocrat, bractlet, brattice, cabretta, castrate, castrati, castrato, cataract, catheter, chartist, chatters, chattery, chattier, citators, citatory, citrated, citrates, clatters, clattery, contract, contrast, corotate, cottager, cristate, cryostat, cultrate, cutwater, cytaster, detracts, dictator, distract, eructate, etcetera, extracts, interact, protatic, protract, raclette, ratchets, reactant, reattach, reattack, retracts, retroact, ricottas, scatters, scattier, subtract, taciturn, tartaric, teacarts, tetracid, tetradic, tetrarch, thatcher, theatric, theocrat, tipcarts, trachyte, tractate, tractile, traction, tractive, tractors, trajects, transact, transect, trictrac, trifecta, triptyca, truncate, turncoat, urticant, urticate.

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